How does one use Gamemax?

I did apply but the BETA was closed. However, I did get a logon and been using it. Shaving about 100ms off my latency but I have had a few disconnects using it.
 
Apologies for recalling an old thread, but saw no reason to start a new thread for something similar.

I started using the Windows 7 beta this weekend (yes WoW works), but my problem is that I cannot get gamemax to work. Putty works fine, but Sockscap does not have a 64bit version :(

Any of you got some advise on getting this to run on 64bit? I have tried using Freecap, but get an error when launching the game.
 
Gamemax

Now heres a question I have a 4mbps unshaped account. I did the registry hack and now am getting between 250 and 350 ms latency if I use Gamemax would it make a diffrence at all to what I am getting or make it better or worse?
 
BrianStephan said:
Now heres a question I have a 4mbps unshaped account. I did the registry hack and now am getting between 250 and 350 ms latency if I use Gamemax would it make a diffrence at all to what I am getting or make it better or worse?
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I have the same setup and I'm also curious if using something like Gamemax will improve the latency even further... but I doubt it.

Honestly I would rather take that extra cash that I would be spending on this type of service and spend it on upgrading my shaped account to an unshaped one. I have now tested from my home and my flat, both locations 4MB Unshaped with reg hack, and I get 200 - 250ms from home and 250 - 320ms from my flat, both are extremely stable.
 
Xavierza said:
both locations 4MB Unshaped with reg hack, and I get 200 - 250ms from home and 250 - 320ms from my flat, both are extremely stable.
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What reg hack?:confused: Where have I been? How does this work, and more importantly is this legal by Blizzard standards?:p
 
Just search the forums for "WoW Registry Hack" or something, there are lots of posts about it and how to do it. Some people swear it's BS others swear it works like a charm. Improved my latency by 100 to 150ms both times I used it, once on Vista and once on XP. So I will keep using it, and yes, it's perfectly legal by Blizzard standards.
 
But the question still remains if would it make any diffrence if u implement the Gamemax or would it just stay the same?
 
Reg hax + Gamemax will actually cause problems.

AFAIK, Gamemax already implements their own optimisation and I was told by their support to remove the reg hax. Besides, I'm getting around ~230-280ms soloing and 250-320ms raiding. There is no need for a reg hax that stuffs up the rest of your PC.
 
RoosTa said:
Reg hax + Gamemax will actually cause problems.

AFAIK, Gamemax already implements their own optimisation and I was told by their support to remove the reg hax. Besides, I'm getting around ~230-280ms soloing and 250-320ms raiding. There is no need for a reg hax that stuffs up the rest of your PC.
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Have you actually done your own testing to confirm that it effects downloads ? Because from what I've seen it seems it will only cause problems with your downloads if you have a crap line, provided I have enough seeds or a decent server, I always get a very smooth 420kb/s. If I download a 500MB file I might have 750kb of bad data that just gets downloaded again anyway. So from my experience maybe I'm just fortunate, but it hasn't affected any of my other applications.
 
My Latency was 350-450 before I did the reg hack and after it I am getting a constant 250-350 doesn't matter where I am so the reg hack did help me allot
 
Have you actually done your own testing to confirm that it effects downloads ? Because from what I've seen it seems it will only cause problems with your downloads if you have a crap line, provided I have enough seeds or a decent server, I always get a very smooth 420kb/s. If I download a 500MB file I might have 750kb of bad data that just gets downloaded again anyway. So from my experience maybe I'm just fortunate, but it hasn't affected any of my other applications.
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Nagle Alg helps with small file downloads and copying (small packets). It affected my copying over my network to my wife's PC. I also found that after I removed this "fix", that my wow didn't DC as often anymore.

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Nagle's document, Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks (RFC896) describes what he called the 'small packet problem', where an application repeatedly emits data in small chunks, frequently only 1 byte in size. Since TCP packets have a 40 byte header (20 bytes for TCP, 20 bytes for IPv4), this results in a 41 byte packet for 1 byte of useful information, a huge overhead.
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By disabling Nagle, you make your network inefficient and it sends more data across the network. I guess this doesn't matter if you have a 4 meg line, but this will increase your data received and sent.

The problem I was having, is that if my wife was browsing the net on her pc (I have a 384K ADSL), it severely hindered my wow session, causing huge lag spikes and DC's. But with Nagle re-enabled and using gamemax, this is not such a huge problem anymore. I still get lag spikes, but it doesn't affect my gaming as much.
 
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What Latency are u getting on your line? I have found that opening a web page while running wow my internet connection is almost none existant while trying 2 browse.
 
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